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Will ISIS plan a 9/11-style terror plot against the U.S.?
CBS News ^ | 06/16/2014 | Rebecca Kaplan

Posted on 06/16/2014 7:18:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Republicans are sounding the warning that the next 9/11-like terror plot could emerge from the regions of Iraq and Syria that are currently dominated by an extremist group bearing down on Baghdad.

As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - which has already captured the cities of Tikrit and Mosul and is threatening to take the capital city as well - grows in strength and numbers, will it pose an immediate threat to the United States homeland as well?

Experts say the group's increasing power and reach is concerning, though it's not entirely clear when they might be able to threaten the U.S.

"You've got motivation mixed with opportunity, ideology and foreign fighters and all of that looks like a very extreme version of Afghanistan in the '90s, plus what was happening in Iraq after the Iraq war," said CBS News National Security Analyst Juan Zarate. "This is a cauldron of future terrorist threats to the west."

The bigger danger, Zarate said, is that the U.S. does not yet know exactly what the group will look like once it evolves. While ISIS might not launch an attack on U.S. soil tomorrow, he said, "I think the grave threat here is that you have the seeds of a new terrorist movement emerging very aggressively."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; terrorism
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To: SeekAndFind

They may do so just for fun. But it really is not necessary, since Obama officially surrendered us to the Global Caliphate on May 31.

And we will be reeling so much from the tsunami of Obama’s Alien Army of Cultural Destruction coming in from the south that our new mohammedan masters will have a pretty easy time of it.


61 posted on 06/16/2014 9:05:27 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: ZX12R
$450 million dollars would buy them a very sophisticated biological attack. Carried out by greedy mad scientist types to produce the bio-agents, and a small group of infected islamic stooges to fly here and take a coughing tour of major American cities.

It looks like somebody already beat you to the idea... Pox

62 posted on 06/16/2014 9:43:20 AM PDT by Gritty (The war is over. We won. - Michael Yon, Top Iraq War Correspondent, 07/21/2008)
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To: SeekAndFind

Open season on muzzies when it happens although barry will attempt his Martial Law desire at that point.


63 posted on 06/16/2014 10:04:03 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: Fitzy_888
They could send a death squad with a senced pistol, and camera of coarse, to a Senator’s house, congressmen’s house, or better yet a celebrity.

Really? They would do that for us?
64 posted on 06/16/2014 10:07:41 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If they do so while the current regime is still in power, they can do so with impunity. Mecca will continue to exist and Islam will be safe.


65 posted on 06/16/2014 10:16:46 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: demshateGod

You’re dreaming, kid. But I wonder why your dreams are for millions to die in the USA.


66 posted on 06/16/2014 10:43:20 AM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: SampleMan
My guess is that they will target a very blue big city.

With one son commuting to Manhattan and the other living and working in D.C., I figure we've got about a 25% chance of losing one in the next Islamic bio/chem/nuke attack. Should that happen no male adult Muslim or Muslim enabler is safe. This harmless looking old man will play a deadly version of knockout on any identifiable Muslim.

Of course, it would make more sense to strike them preemptively, but we're the good guys, we don't do that.

67 posted on 06/16/2014 10:59:15 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bet your Butt on it.


68 posted on 06/16/2014 1:28:44 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: sten

Why use schachel nukes? An EMP attack is logistically simpler, more efficient, and far more devastating. It will take us off the board. Within 18 months it is likely eighty percent of Americans will be dead. Then the Chinese, Ruskies, and Muzzies can attack the world at will.


69 posted on 06/16/2014 4:34:49 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

Sure, maybe in science fiction.


70 posted on 06/16/2014 7:55:31 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: aNYCguy

Don’t seem too far fetched


71 posted on 06/16/2014 8:43:55 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

What technology do you propose to generate an EMP sufficient to take even one city block offline?


72 posted on 06/16/2014 9:46:43 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: aNYCguy

Tuned nuclear weapons detonated about 100 miles up. Three to four could due in most of the electronics in the country. That means computers, cars, trucks, airplanes, much of the electric grid, motors etc will be destroyed. Interesting that missile tests by our enemies, such as the DPRK, fail around that altitude.


73 posted on 06/17/2014 5:54:17 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

That’s the attack you consider “logistically simpler” than a satchel nuke? Multiple tuned nuclear weapons detonated in low-Earth orbit over targets?


74 posted on 06/18/2014 3:53:35 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: aNYCguy

Yep. Three or four freighters. Three or four non miniturized war heads. Three or four two-bit missiles. The Norks will be able to do it soon enough. The Iranians will be able to do it in a bit. Any present nuclear power in the world can do it. And the delivery systems are not in orbit. Low or otherwise. The only defense presently is our ABM system. And the dims will destroy that soon enough.


75 posted on 06/18/2014 8:37:47 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

And this is supposed to be simpler to do than detonating a suitcase nuke in an urban center? We must have some different definitions of “simpler.”


76 posted on 06/26/2014 5:47:41 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: aNYCguy

Guess so.


77 posted on 06/26/2014 6:56:28 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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